Re: [R] license for a university

2008-09-04 Thread Barry Rowlingson
2008/9/4 Ted Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Erin, I trust you know what you risk when you assume. ;-) There IS a license, but it basically lets you copy or distribute it, or, in your case, install on as many machines as you wish. It is the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. Like most open source

[R] license for a university

2008-09-03 Thread Erin Hodgess
Dear R People: I am trying to install R in a classroom here, but have been told that there must be a license. Is there such a thing with R, please? Since it is free, I assumed that there would be no license. Thanks for any help, Sincerely, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department

Re: [R] license for a university

2008-09-03 Thread Peter Alspach
Erin Did you try licence() or license() HTH Peter Alspach -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erin Hodgess Sent: Thursday, 4 September 2008 10:59 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] license for a university Dear R

Re: [R] license for a university

2008-09-03 Thread Charilaos Skiadas
Try: license() On Sep 3, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote: Dear R People: I am trying to install R in a classroom here, but have been told that there must be a license. Is there such a thing with R, please? Since it is free, I assumed that there would be no license. Thanks for any

Re: [R] license for a university

2008-09-03 Thread Ted Byers
Erin, I trust you know what you risk when you assume. ;-) There IS a license, but it basically lets you copy or distribute it, or, in your case, install on as many machines as you wish. It is the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. Like most open source software I use, the Gnu license is in place

Re: [R] license for a university

2008-09-03 Thread Michael Bibo
...and, interestingly, the GPL has recently been upheld as enforceable by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2008081313212422 Michael Bibo Queensland Health __ R-help@r-project.org

Re: [R] license for a university

2008-09-03 Thread Erin Hodgess
Thanks to all for the good info. Hope I'll be able to get it through! Sincerely, Erin On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Michael Bibo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and, interestingly, the GPL has recently been upheld as enforceable by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: